Personification in Descriptive Writing

Read The House on Alder Street aloud and ask students what each object seems to feel. Use the sentence sheet for independent practice.

Read The House on Alder Street and find 6 objects, like a groaning gate, that act like people. Personification gives human actions or feelings to something that is not human. The directions on the page read: Read the description. Underline the 6 places where an object acts like a person. In the table, write each object and the human action or feeling it is given. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade comprehension exercises, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with personification worksheets. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The wind whispered through the tall pine trees is personification, because wind cannot whisper. Find and Explain Personification has 12 sentences like it.

It makes a setting feel alive. In The House on Alder Street, the gate groans, the windows stare and the chimney whistles a lonely tune.

Yes. Find and Explain Personification ends with 2 sentences of their own, each with a different object.